WO2015113883A1 - Unité d'affichage et de commande et appareil ménager pourvu de ladite unité - Google Patents

Unité d'affichage et de commande et appareil ménager pourvu de ladite unité Download PDF

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WO2015113883A1
WO2015113883A1 PCT/EP2015/051183 EP2015051183W WO2015113883A1 WO 2015113883 A1 WO2015113883 A1 WO 2015113883A1 EP 2015051183 W EP2015051183 W EP 2015051183W WO 2015113883 A1 WO2015113883 A1 WO 2015113883A1
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René Alt
Christoph Becke
Max Eicher
Christine Hartwein
Maike Kirschbaum
Ralph Staud
Thomas Tischer
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BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D29/00—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
    • F25D29/005—Mounting of control devices
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D2400/00—General features of, or devices for refrigerators, cold rooms, ice-boxes, or for cooling or freezing apparatus not covered by any other subclass
    • F25D2400/36—Visual displays
    • F25D2400/361—Interactive visual displays

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  • the present invention relates to a display and / or operating unit, in particular for a domestic appliance, preferably a refrigeration appliance.
  • Refrigeration appliances have display units, operating units or even combined display and operating units.
  • DE 20 2007 028 020 A1 discloses an operating device with a central LCD display panel and surrounding sensor keys.
  • WO 2005/090868 A1 describes a control panel with a base panel, an adapter and a board equipped with LEDs and switching elements.
  • the adapter has optical fibers for transmitting the light of the LEDs to a visible side of the base panel.
  • the adapter also has displaceable plungers which connect buttons led out on the visible side of the base panel with switches of the circuit board.
  • the controls and the display elements in non-luminous state each form a clear optical interruption on the visible side of the control unit.
  • the optical barrier layer has an opening.
  • the invention is directed to pure display units, pure control units and combined display and control units with backlit display or strictlyelemen- In non-luminous state, the display and / or operating unit appears in the color of the coloring layer, display or operating elements are not or hardly recognizable. Only in the luminous state, the respectively illuminated display or control elements emerge, while possibly other unilluminated elements are not or hardly recognizable.
  • a domestic appliance in particular a refrigerator, with a carcass, a door and such a display and / or operating unit
  • the body or the door has a visible from the outside visible surface and the display and control unit is arranged in the visible surface.
  • the invention makes it possible on the one hand to create an optically uninterrupted unit in the color of the visible surface in a non-luminous state.
  • a visually uninterrupted door is provided in which optionally only the backlit indicators form an optical interruption.
  • the invention makes it possible to provide an optically uninterrupted unit in an accent color to the color of the visible surface.
  • a door is provided with an optically accentuated unit, in which optionally only the backlit indicators form an optical break within the unit.
  • An alternative advantageous location for a display according to the invention is a front strip above or next to a door of a domestic appliance.
  • the invention relates to a display unit for the display of information, typically of a plurality of different information, simultaneously from a group of possible information.
  • the description often focuses on a display or control element that is representative of one or more similar elements.
  • the information itself can be a backlit point on the visible surface in the minimum case for the indication of a switched-on operating state.
  • multiple information is displayed simultaneously by means of symbols or in the form of text or symbol information. These shapes are created by designing one or more Rer perforations of the barrier layer generated.
  • a displayable information is associated with at least one light source in the light generation layer.
  • a preferred embodiment of the invention is a display and / or operating unit in which the light-generating layer has an LED as the light source.
  • the display and / or operating unit advantageously has a light-guiding layer adjacent to the light-generating layer.
  • the light-guiding layer preferably has an optical waveguide.
  • the light-guiding layer has a diaphragm.
  • the LED is positioned to the aperture.
  • the protective layer on a clear glass or a clear plastic.
  • the protective layer forms a mechanical protection of the underlying layers.
  • the coloring layer has a coloring sheet or a printed coloring layer.
  • the optical barrier layer preferably has an optical barrier film or a printed barrier layer.
  • the display and / or operating unit advantageously has a backlit indicator position for displaying information.
  • a particular advantage of the present invention comes into its own when the light-guiding layer has a sensor key in an operating unit.
  • a particularly preferred embodiment of the invention is a domestic appliance, in particular a refrigerator with a body, a door and a display and / or operating unit according to the invention, wherein the body or the door have a visible from the outside reformflä- and the display and control unit in the visible surface is arranged.
  • the visible surface has a visible surface color and the coloring layer has substantially the same color.
  • the display and / or operating unit is flush in the visible surface.
  • a domestic appliance in which the display and / or operating unit has a plurality of indicator lights backlit indicator positions for displaying information on different operating states of the domestic appliance, wherein the domestic appliance has a control that controls only those indicator lamps in operation, the Information about the current operating state.
  • the invention makes it possible to display relevant information of an operating status of a domestic appliance, in particular a refrigeration appliance, in the form of symbols arranged next to one another, which together form a light line on a visible surface. Different states can be displayed by different brightness or color or modulation of the brightness of the same control or display element.
  • Figure 1 a schematic representation of a refrigerator with a display and control unit according to an embodiment of the invention
  • Figure 2 is a schematic representation of an alternative embodiment of a refrigerator with an alternatively running display and control unit according to an embodiment of the invention
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic representation of a section of a display and control unit according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 4 shows a schematic representation of a plan view of a display and control unit according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • the 1 shows a refrigeration appliance 10, with a body 1 1 and a door 12, which closes a door opening of the body 1 1.
  • the body 1 1 has an outer wall 13.
  • a display and control unit 15 is arranged according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • the display and control unit 15 has the color of the door 12 and is integrated into the front side 14.
  • the door 12 has a visible from the outside visible surface 25 and the display and control unit 15 is disposed in the visible surface 25.
  • the display and control unit 15 has two backlit sensor keys 16, 17 and two numeric displays 18, 19 with seven backlit segments 20 per digit.
  • the sensor key 17 is backlit, but the selector key 16 is not.
  • Some backlit segments 21 of the backlit segments 20 of the numeric displays 18 represent a temperature display in the form of a number.
  • the segments 22, which are not currently backlit, are shown with broken lines.
  • the non-backlit sensor button 16 and the non-backlit segments 22 are shown by broken lines to indicate their position, although they are not or barely discernible by a user on the viewing surface 25 of the door.
  • the display and control unit 15 is shown by a broken line, since it has the color of the door 12 and therefore is not or hardly recognizable by a user on the visible surface 25 of the door.
  • the entire door appears uniform in the color of the door, in which only the backlit elements stand out brightly.
  • the luminous elements can glow in the color of the door or in another color.
  • FIG. 2 now shows an alternative cooling device 30 with a body 31 and a door 32 which closes a door opening of the body 31.
  • the body 31 has an outer wall 33.
  • the front side 34 of the door 32 is flush with a strut 35 of the body 31 arranged above the door 32.
  • a display and control unit 36 is arranged according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • the display and control unit 36 has an accent color to the color of the door 32 and is flush with the strut 35 integrated.
  • the body has a visible from the outside visible surface 37 and the display and control unit 36 is disposed in the visible surface 37.
  • the display and control unit 36 has the known from Fig. 1 two backlit sensor keys 16, 17 and two numeric displays 18, 19 with seven backlit segments 20 per digit on In the operating state shown in Fig. 2, the sensor key 16 is backlit again, the sensor key 17 but not.
  • the numeric displays are shown here with all segments, in operation, this occurs in a functional test state of the numeric display.
  • the display and control unit 36 is shown by a solid line, since it is clearly visible with the accent color to the color of the door 12.
  • the entire door 32 appears with the color of the door and a color remote display and control unit 36 in the accent color.
  • the display and control unit 36 appears uniform in the accent color, with only the backlit elements emerge bright.
  • the luminous elements can shine in the accent color, ie the color of the display and control unit 36 or in another color.
  • the sensor key 17 is shown backlit, but the sensor key 16 is not. This reflects the activity of the sensor keys.
  • the currently backlit sensor button 17 is active in the current operating state, so it can be used by a user to control the refrigerator.
  • the currently not backlit sensor button 16 is not active in the current operating state, so it can not be operated by a user.
  • Fig. 3 shows schematically a part of a section through a display and control unit 40 according to an embodiment of the invention, in which some independently combinable features of display and controls are illustrated.
  • the display and control unit 40 has a protective layer 41, a semitransparent coloring layer 42, an optical barrier layer 43, a light guiding layer 44 and a light generation layer 45.
  • the protective layer 41 comprises a clear glass or a clear plastic.
  • the protective layer 41 has a recess 46 on the edge for insertion into a container wall.
  • the light generation layer 45 has, as the light source 48, LEDs 49 with lenses 50.
  • the LEDs 49 are arranged on a circuit board 51.
  • the semitransparent coloring layer 42 on the one hand, carries the color of the display and control unit 40, but is permeable to the light of the LEDs 49.
  • the coloring layer may be a coloring sheet or a coloring layer printed on the protective layer 41.
  • the optical barrier 43 is transparent to light from the LEDs 49, but has apertures 54, 55, 56 through which light from the LEDs 49 can pass.
  • the optical barrier layer may be an optical barrier film or a barrier layer printed on the colorant layer 42.
  • the light guide layer 44 forms a space between the optical barrier layer 43 and the light generation layer 45, in the one hand by means of the light of the LEDs to the Openings 54, 55, 56 is guided, on the other hand contacts 60 find space for sensor keys.
  • Display or operating elements 60, 61, 62 may be control elements 60 or display elements 61, 62.
  • the elements are mappings of mostly one or possibly several LEDs of the light-generating layer 45 to one or more apertures of the optical barrier layer 43 over all layers.
  • an element forms an information unit as a controllably illuminated spot on a surface of the display.
  • the control element 60 is a sensor button 63 with contacts 58 which are arranged on the circuit board 51 and electrically connected.
  • the sensor button 63 is illuminated by means of an LED 64, which is associated with the opening 54. In operation, the LED 64 lights in operating states in which the sensor button 63 is operable.
  • the operating element 61 is a display element 67 and is illuminated by means of an LED 65, which is associated with the opening 55. In operation, the LED 65 illuminates in operating states in which the information associated with the display element 67 is relevant.
  • the control element 62 is a display element 68 and is illuminated by means of an LED 66, which is associated with the apertures 56. In operation, the LED 66 illuminates in operating states in which the information associated with the display element 68 is relevant.
  • the openings 56 form a symbol of several parts, the openings form the shape of the symbol.
  • the operating elements 61 and 62 each have a light guide 70, 71 for guiding the light from the LED of the operating element to the associated apertures.
  • the light guide 70 is rod-like, the light guide 71 is widened trapezoidal to detect all openings 56.
  • the operating elements 60 and 61 each have an aperture 74, 75.
  • the aperture 74 is arranged on the LED 64.
  • the aperture 75 is disposed adjacent to the LED 65 and has foam. The irises prevent light from the LED of a control element reaches an opening of another control element.
  • FIG. 4 shows a schematic top view of a detail of a display and operating unit 80 according to an embodiment of the invention. Shown are a super-frost symbol 81 of a freezer compartment of a refrigerator and two seven-segment displays 82,83.
  • the super-frost symbol 81 indicates the one sensor key for selecting a super-frost function and represents a single control.
  • the seven-segment displays 82, 83 each consist of seven segments as separate display elements.
  • the super-frost symbol 81 and each segment forms a backlightable indicator position 84, 85, 86 for displaying information.
  • the mediated information content results from the combination of the simultaneously active elements.

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Unité d'affichage et/ou de commande, en particulier pour un appareil de froid (10, 30), qui comporte une couche de protection (41), une couche semi-transparente colorée (42), une couche formant barrière optique (43) et une couche de production de lumière (45), la couche formant barrière optique (43) présentant une perforation (54, 55, 56). Dans un appareil de froid, ladite unité d'affichage et de commande est située sur la face exposée à la vue. L'écran d'affichage peut être intégré pour ce qui est de sa couleur dans la face exposée à la vue.
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